Lead Data Modeler

About the Role Lead Data Modeler to spearhead data modeling initiatives for Teradata customers. In this leadership role, you will guide a team of data modelers, design scalable data architectures, and ensure alignment with business objectives in a dynamic, client-facing environment. This contract position offers opportunities to work on international projects and drive data-driven innovation, with a focus on domains such as insurance. What You'll Do

• Develop conceptual, logical, and physical data models for various domains, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and scalability
• Define data structures, relationships, and attributes that capture business requirements and enable efficient storage and retrieval
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, analysts, and data consumers to gather requirements and align models with business needs
• Translate business requirements into database schema designs, including normalization and denormalization for data integrity and performance
• Ensure data integrity and quality by defining constraints, validation rules, and governance policies within data models
• Define data quality standards and best practices; establish maintenance processes for CDM/LDM/PDM/Semantic dimensional models
• Create comprehensive documentation of data models, including ER diagrams, data dictionaries, and metadata definitions; keep documentation up to date as models evolve
• Collaborate with data scientists to provide structured data for analytical and machine learning purposes
• Enforce data governance and compliance by incorporating security and privacy considerations into data models; work with legal and compliance teams
• Stay up to date with industry trends and best practices; provide regular updates on tasks, status, target dates, priority, and issues
• Lead a project team of Data Modelers, fostering collaboration and guidance on Teradata projects What We're Looking For
• Bachelor’s Degree from a reputed educational institute; 10+ years IT experience; 8+ years data modeling experience
• Proven experience as a Data Modeler / Database Designer / Information Architect
• Proficiency with ERwin, PowerDesigner, ER/Studio or similar tools
• Strong understanding of relational database concepts, normalization, and denormalization
• Familiarity with DB systems such as Vantage, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL
• Experience with big data platforms and NoSQL databases is a plus
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Insurance industry knowledge could be a plus; experience with reference industry data models is advantageous
• Strong communication and collaboration skills; ability to articulate complex issues to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment; knowledge of data governance and compliance regulations desirable
• Willing to travel – short-term and long-term if required Nice to Have
• Insurance domain knowledge
• Experience with reference industry data models
• Teradata-specific project experience Compensation & Benefits
• Training on Teradata products
• Opportunities to work on high-profile international projects